Tracing Topographies Revisiting The Concentration Camps Seventy Years After The Liberation Of Auschwitz

Author : Joanne Pettitt,Vered Weiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351789653

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Tracing Topographies: Revisiting the Concentration Camps Seventy Years after the Liberation of Auschwitz by Joanne Pettitt,Vered Weiss Pdf

Seventy years on from the liberation of Auschwitz, the contributions collected in this volume each attempt, in various ways and from various perspectives, to trace the relationship between Nazi-occupied spaces and Holocaust memory, considering the multitude of ways in which the passing of time impacts upon, or shapes, cultural constructions of space. Accordingly, this volume does not consider topographies merely in relation to geographical landscapes but, rather, as markers of allusions and connotations that must be properly eked out. Since space and time are intertwined, if not, in fact, one and the same, an investigation of the spaces – the locations of horror – in relation to the passing of time might provide some manner of comprehension of one of the most troubling moments in human history. It is with this understanding of space, as fluid sites of memory that the contributors of this volume engage: these are the kind of shifting topographies that we are seeking to trace. This book was originally published as a special issue of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History.

Author : Diana I. Popescu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031530043

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Public Engagement with Holocaust Memory Sites in Poland by Diana I. Popescu Pdf

Author : Maurizio Cinquegrani
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474403580

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Journey to Poland by Maurizio Cinquegrani Pdf

Journey to Poland addresses crucial issues of memory and history in relation to the Holocaust as it unfolded in the territories of the Second Polish Republic.

Author : Nicholas Chare,Dominic Williams
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781805393498

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Testimonies of Resistance by Nicholas Chare,Dominic Williams Pdf

The Sonderkommando—the “special squad” of enslaved Jewish laborers who were forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau—comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history. As eyewitnesses to and unwilling abettors of the murder of their fellow Jews, they are the object of fierce condemnation even today. Yet it was a group of these seemingly compromised men who carried out the revolt of October 7, 1944, one of the most celebrated acts of Holocaust resistance. This interdisciplinary collection assembles careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represented—by themselves and by others—both during and after the Holocaust.

Author : Elana Gomel,Danielle Gurevitch
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783031263972

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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy by Elana Gomel,Danielle Gurevitch Pdf

This handbook is the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of fantasy outside the Anglo-American hegemony. While most academic studies of fantasy follow the well-trodden path of focusing on Tolkien, Rowling, and others, our collection spotlights rich and unique fantasy literatures in India, Australia, Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, China, and many other areas of Europe, Asia, and the global South. The first part focuses on the theoretical aspects of fantasy, broadening and modifying existing definitions to accommodate the global reach of the genre. The second part contains essays illuminating specific cultures, countries, and religious or ethnic traditions. From Aboriginal myths to (self)-representation of Tibet, from the appropriation of the Polish Witcher by the American pop culture to modern Greek fantasy that does not rely on stories of Olympian deities, and from Israeli vampires to Talmudic sages, this collection is an indispensable reading for anyone interested in fantasy fiction and global literature.

Author : Brewster S. Chamberlin,Marcia Feldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Concentration camps
ISBN : PURD:32754004380527

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The Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps 1945 by Brewster S. Chamberlin,Marcia Feldman Pdf

Eyewitness accounts and testimonies given at the First International Liberators Conference held in Washington, D.C. in Oct. 1981.

Author : Dan Stone
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300204575

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The Liberation of the Camps by Dan Stone Pdf

A moving, deeply researched account of survivors' experiences of liberation from Nazi death camps and the long, difficult years that followed Seventy years have passed since the tortured inmates of Hitler's concentration and extermination camps were liberated. When the horror of the atrocities came fully to light, it was easy for others to imagine the joyful relief of freed prisoners. Yet for those who had survived the unimaginable, the experience of liberation was a slow, grueling journey back to life. In this unprecedented inquiry into the days, months, and years following the arrival of Allied forces at the Nazi camps, a foremost historian of the Holocaust draws on archival sources and especially on eyewitness testimonies to reveal the complex challenges liberated victims faced and the daunting tasks their liberators undertook to help them reclaim their shattered lives. Historian Dan Stone focuses on the survivors--their feelings of guilt, exhaustion, fear, shame for having survived, and devastating grief for lost family members; their immense medical problems; and their later demands to be released from Displaced Persons camps and resettled in countries of their own choosing. Stone also tracks the efforts of British, American, Canadian, and Russian liberators as they contended with survivors' immediate needs, then grappled with longer-term issues that shaped the postwar world and ushered in the first chill of the Cold War years ahead.

Author : Dan Stone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198790709

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Concentration Camps by Dan Stone Pdf

Concentration camps are a relatively new invention, a recurring feature of twentieth century warfare, and one that is important to the modern global consciousness and identity. Although the most famous concentration camps are those under the Nazis, the use of concentration camps originated several decades before the Third Reich, in the Philippines and in the Boer War, and they have been used again in numerous locations, not least during the genocides in Bosnia. They have become defining symbols of humankind's lowest point and basest acts. In this book, Dan Stone gives a global history of concentration camps, and shows that it is not only mad dictators who have set up camps, but instead all varieties of states, including liberal democracies, that have made use of them. Setting concentration camps against the longer history of incarceration, he explains how the ability of the modern state to control populations led to the creation of this extreme institution. Looking at their emergence and spread around the world, Stone argues that concentration camps serve the purpose, from the point of view of the state in crisis, of removing a section of the population that is perceived to be threatening, traitorous, or diseased. Drawing on contemporary accounts of camps, as well as the philosophical literature surrounding them, Stone considers the story camps tell us about the nature of the modern world as well as about specific regimes.

Author : Kim Wünschmann
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674425583

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Before Auschwitz by Kim Wünschmann Pdf

Nazis began detaining Jews in camps as soon as they came to power in 1933. Kim Wünschmann reveals the origin of these extralegal detention sites, the harsh treatment Jews received there, and the message the camps sent to Germans: that Jews were enemies of the state, dangerous to associate with and fair game for acts of intimidation and violence.

Author : Nikolaus Wachsmann,Jane Caplan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135263225

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Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany by Nikolaus Wachsmann,Jane Caplan Pdf

Offers an overview of the scholarship that has changed the way the concentration camp system is studied over the years.

Author : Tanja Schult,Diana I. Popescu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137530424

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Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era by Tanja Schult,Diana I. Popescu Pdf

This volume explores post-2000s artistic engagements with Holocaust memory arguing that imagination plays an increasingly important role in keeping the memory of the Holocaust vivid for contemporary and future audiences.

Author : Anton Gill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000009106620

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The Journey Back from Hell by Anton Gill Pdf

Collected reminiscences of former concentration camp inmates.

Author : Nikolaus Wachsmann
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429943727

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KL by Nikolaus Wachsmann Pdf

The first comprehensive history of the Nazi concentration camps In a landmark work of history, Nikolaus Wachsmann offers an unprecedented, integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise, seventy years ago, in the spring of 1945. The Third Reich has been studied in more depth than virtually any other period in history, and yet until now there has been no history of the camp system that tells the full story of its broad development and the everyday experiences of its inhabitants, both perpetrators and victims, and all those living in what Primo Levi called "the gray zone." In KL, Wachsmann fills this glaring gap in our understanding. He not only synthesizes a new generation of scholarly work, much of it untranslated and unknown outside of Germany, but also presents startling revelations, based on many years of archival research, about the functioning and scope of the camp system. Examining, close up, life and death inside the camps, and adopting a wider lens to show how the camp system was shaped by changing political, legal, social, economic, and military forces, Wachsmann produces a unified picture of the Nazi regime and its camps that we have never seen before. A boldly ambitious work of deep importance, KL is destined to be a classic in the history of the twentieth century.

Author : Isabelle Engelhardt
Publisher : P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Holocaust memorials
ISBN : UOM:39015056280574

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A Topography of Memory by Isabelle Engelhardt Pdf

This book is an analysis of the history of various sorts of representation, chiefly memorials, on the site of the concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald in comparison with Auschwitz, Yad Vashem and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. By providing a reconstruction of the history and debates surrounding the question of memorializing and forgetting, it interrogates the question of how to represent the unrepresentable. It draws on Freudian analysis, the literature on sites of memory, and the debate about writing about the Holocaust, showing clearly how the camps have been and still remain highly contested places of memory and arguing that these debates and their physical embodiment on the sites have to be incorporated in our understanding of what these places represent. --from publisher description.

Author : Jon Bridgman,Richard Hutton Jones
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Concentration camps
ISBN : UVA:X001843827

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The End of the Holocaust by Jon Bridgman,Richard Hutton Jones Pdf

Pp. 17-31 describe the liberation of the eastern camps (mainly Majdanek and Auschwitz) by the Soviet army. Pp. 33-102 give details on the liberation of five other camps - Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, and Theresienstadt. Discusses policies of Nazi leaders and camp commandants between July 1944-May 1945 in view of the advancing Allied forces, the circumstances of the liberation of each camp, and their effect on American and European perceptions of the war. Pp. 121-136 contain three accounts, by survivors, of their liberation: Clara Greenbaum (Bergen-Belsen), Simon Wiesenthal (Mauthausen), and Elie Wiesel (Buchenwald).